Consumer demand for new products within the cosmetics and toiletries industry has encouraged the industry increasingly to incorporate and experiment with new products and processes, including nanotechnologies. A number of cosmetic products which claim to incorporate engineered nano-materials...

Essent, Joined Cases C-204/12 to C-208/12, in conjunction with Case C-573/12 Ålands Vindkraft, completes the promotion of climate change governance as a super trump in the application of European Union trade law. The cycle arguably started with Outokompu Oy, followed by PreussenElektra. In...

In this contribution I summarily review the changes to the European Insolvency Regulation (‘EIR'). The new Regulation, 2015/848, will apply to insolvency proceedings opened after 26 June 2017. It repeals Regulation 1346/2000. I will use ‘EIR 2015' for the new Regulation and ‘former EIR'...

This chapter examines the cost-benefit for ISO 26000. The first section of the chapter goes back to the origins of the standard to determine what made ISO embark on the project and why ISO 26000 was developed as a non-certifiable guidance standard. The second section examines whether ISO 26000,...

The European Union consists of fifteen Member States. The peoples of those states speak at least twelve different languages. Because of psychological and political reasons, the Union has chosen to include all officially recognised languages in its legal framework. This construction is likely to...

Both individual freedoms and the freedom of trade are regularly set aside in pursuit of regulatory objectives. These include environmental protection, public health, national security, consumer protection etc. The room for manoeuvre for States to set such restrictions on activities and (use of)...

The novel properties yielded by nanoparticles’ physico-characteristics, and the benefits associated with them, have for some time now raised concerns over long-term health impact and potential risks. This article examines the suitability of non-contractual liability, as a regulatory instrument...

Nanomedicine, the application of nanotechnology to healthcare offers numerous improvements to medical diagnosis, drug delivery, therapy and implants. The potential impact of nanomedicine is foreseen radically to change health care; however it also challenges existing perceptions, dynamics and...